Racial Identity Essay

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Pietra Chaves English 110 Gaber Hasaneen 02/08/15

In today’s society the word race is used to describe a lot of things. As I was reading Appiah’s Essay “ Racial Identities” it made me remember some situations that I encountered during my life. The fact that being a woman and black posed me as many situations of discrimination. Furthermore, I have seen many situations of discrimination happening with others black people around the world and especially in countries such ...view middle of the document...

In addition, there used to happen another aspect that I noticed, the majority of waiters used having one tone of the skin darker than the majority of clients. For that reason, it was clear to see that in the tables which were “white people” sitting, the service at the tables was more efficient than the others one. There they used to accept 5 orders at time in the others table without complaining or arguing. However, when they came our table to proceed with our orders they were very impatient and ignorants with us. I remember that as soon as they brought our order, I asked for salt due to the lack of taste on my meal. Consequently, one of the waiters that was serving us gave me a rude answer saying that if I wanted salt it would be better go to another restaurant. I was completely lost as I received that answer. After a few minutes, ​ couple called one of the waiters and said one there was an error with their order. Immediately, the waiter figured out the mistake that they had made followed by the manager of the restaurant apologizing the couple. My history is related with Appiah’s essay by racial labeling, racial identification, discrimination and common culture keywords. In his essay Appiah assume that he argued with one’s thought of racial labeling as a way of identification of people that apportion the same qualities, “I have argued that Jefferson and Arnold thought that when they applied a racial label they were identifying people with a shared essence.” (43). This statement is surely right by making us presume that society has not the power and authority to identify others by the impression of their skin color or any other reason. In Appiah’s essay, he explained that he did not accept one’s ideas of racial label ...

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